Mysterious fireball from a cataclysmic explosion

Esahubble_opo9722a_1024

esahubble_opo9722a June 10th, 1997

Credit: Elena Pian (ITESRC), Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and NASA/ESA

The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes in the center of this image, taken with the CCD camera (Charge Coupled Device) on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, a new instrument on Hubble Space Telescope.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9722a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Gamma Ray Burst GRB970508
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology > Phenomenon > Gamma Ray Burst
Esahubble_opo9722a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 6h 53m 49.4s
DEC = 79° 16’ 19.6”
Orientation
North is 8.9° CCW
Field of View
0.4 x 0.2 arcminutes
Constellation
Camelopardalis

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (STIS ) -
Esahubble_opo9722a_1280
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ID
opo9722a
Subject Category
D.6.2.2  
Subject Name
Gamma Ray Burst, GRB970508
Credits
Elena Pian (ITESRC), Andrew Fruchter (STScI), and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1997-06-10T17:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9722a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
STIS
Color Assignment
Red
Band
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
103.455650136, 79.2720974459
Reference Dimension
918.0, 518.0
Reference Pixel
459.0, 259.0
Scale
-7.05301388066e-06, 7.05301388066e-06
Rotation
8.9199999999999786
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9722a
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:48:24+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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